Example sentences of "wanted [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , put the spaghetti in the oven to keep warm , ’ suggested Sam , endeavouring to do as little as possible by bossing people about and yet maintaining an irresistible charm of manner : she wanted to sit by the boy from the bistro while someone else did what work remained to be done . |
| 2 | She was not sure whether she wanted to sit within the circle ; it might seem more like a restriction than protection . |
| 3 | He wanted to sit in the front on Zoe 's knee . |
| 4 | But some companies made it clear yesterday that if possible they wanted to remain in the City . |
| 5 | The inflation of land prices encouraged farmers who wanted to remain in the east to sell to the Commission only to buy the same land back again at a reduced price and pocket the difference . |
| 6 | ‘ There was a picture of exactly what I wanted hanging in the salon , ’ says Susan . |
| 7 | She wanted to weep at the pity of it all , then she opened them again to stare at him . |
| 8 | It felt light in his arms ; a child starved of love and food and warmth : ‘ And although a part of me , deep buried , hidden away , knew , ’ he said , ‘ still I wanted to weep for the pity of it . ’ |
| 9 | She wanted to weep for the ecstasy she would never know now . |
| 10 | I just wanted to stroll around the place , and take in the night air . ’ |
| 11 | I think it 's a very good cause , I wanted to invest in the future . |
| 12 | Marian wanted to sink to the floor and sleep . |
| 13 | As early as 1886 its legal sub-committee had drawn up a whole series of amendments to the criminal law which it wanted to see on the statute book . |
| 14 | But first they wanted to see to the drainage at one particularly bad spot , where a stream was running down the path . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the Charter implied that the two greatest trading nations of the world should take domestic action to expand their demand , for the international expansion of trade which the Americans wanted to see after the war would necessarily be the sum of many domestic expansions . |
| 16 | Once he had eaten and smeared two or three cakes round his face and all over the chair , he wanted to see round the place . |
| 17 | Most of the group members were quite young , Right-On , middle-class , intellectual , and had their own particular obsession which they wanted to see in the paper . |
| 18 | ‘ He said he came because he could n't discuss it on the telephone , but whether he really wanted to see inside the Post I ca n't say . ’ |
| 19 | She wanted to go along the side passage and up the back stairs to the bedroom with the toys where she could safely hide . |
| 20 | Peter Thompson now explained that he wanted to go beyond the concept of a management buy-out and to involve all the staff who wanted to buy shares . |
| 21 | However , he always managed to get the team to wherever they wanted to go despite the problem . |
| 22 | Marie wanted to go on the Pill when she was fifteen : |
| 23 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 24 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 25 | I do n't know the reasons , I 'm only guessing , but the fact remains that a group captain , no less , came over to Bourn from Huntingdon to attend our squadron 's briefing , and then decided he wanted to go on the mission too . |
| 26 | ‘ He wanted to go on the dodgems and Nanny would n't let him . ’ |
| 27 | I just wanted to go to the bathroom . |
| 28 | In the spring she said she wanted to go to the sea , to a warmer place . |
| 29 | For example , Jenny wanted to go to the park , but her father said there was n't time before tea . |
| 30 | She made it clear ( I do n't remember how ) that she wanted to go to the back of the house , to the kitchen . |